A system of low atmospheric pressure brewing near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is all but certain to become a tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico over the next 48 hours — but neither Houston nor any part of the Texas Gulf Coast is expected to be landfall target for any developing storm.

Air Force hurricane hunters investigate potential tropical cyclone Number Nine in the Caribbean about 110 miles south-soutwest of the Grand Cayman islands.

The storm system — now called Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine — is most likely to make landfall along the Florida Panhandle.